no. any string is valid.
Yossi
Shlomo Yona
<shlomo at cs.haifa To: perl at perl.org.il
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10/23/2002 09:42
Please respond
to perl
Hello.
Your data always looks like
/[a-z][a-z]/
(e.g. aa or bb etc.)?
--
Shlomo Yona
shlomo at cs.haifa.ac.il
http://cs.haifa.ac.il/~shlomo/
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 Yossi.Itzkovich at lightscapenet.com wrote:
> I have two files with many records with the format of :
>
> Name N
> valLine#1
> valLine#2
> ...
> valLine#N
>
>
> N indicates how many following lines this records has.
>
> I need to merge 2 such files, which is prety simple using 2 hashes, but
I
> want to add records from file1 (that are missing in file2) in the same
> order/position to file2.
>
> For example:
>
> File1 is:
> a 2
> aa
> aa
> b 1
> bb
> c 1
> cc
>
> File 2 is:
> a 2
> aa
> aa
> c 1
> cc
> d 1
> dd
>
>
> I want record "b" from file 1 to be added after record "a". How can I
> change the original solution (using 2 hashes and merge and checking
> existance of keys) to suit this one too? I need a simple solution as
> possible.
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